Mis info on Google Analytics account

I sent an email re my GA account. shinemusicproductions@gmail.com. Asking why? If somebody in Kildare of co Dublin looks at my site. www.shinemusicproductions.com Google analytics is showing it as Dublin city or Dublin south. This is of no use to me if this continues. I got no reply from my last email. Hopefully I will from this one.Regards. Robbie

In Ireland, we're small and we have a limited number of ISPs.What that means is that we get assigned IP addresses from our local ISP exchanges. Unfortunately, our IP address location may not be where we are located but where our exchange is located. Even outside Ireland, unless you have a static IP address, your IP address wont reveal your exact location.

This is particularly bad with Eircom and Vodafone. There simply isn't an exchange for all ISPs in all counties.

This isn't Google's problem. Google uses IP addresses to define primary location (among other things) and in Ireland, because of our ISPs, our IP addresses aren't usually close to us or even in the same county as us!

For Dublin and Cork it's not an issue because that's where the exchanges are. In more rural counties, it's a lot worse.

Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid. it's the joys of living in a small country.

Re: Mis info on Google Analytics account

This is also a problem in Australia where I have a number of clients - and that's not a small country at all! Just depends on how the internet network has been installed. This issue will probably get worse before it gets better as larger city hubs will be able to handle much more traffic and will eliminate the need for local relays. This could be a bigger problem in developing countries where internet connections, when they arrive will be the fastest and most up to date there is. Where in the UK and US we moved from dial up to ISDN to broadband over a period of 15 years or so - new installations in the developing world will go from nothing to lightning.